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UFO Strikes Train
NUFORC ^ | 05/15/2006

Posted on 08/22/2006 5:30:44 AM PDT by MichaelP

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Sighting Report

Occurred : 1/14/2002 02:47 (Entered as : 01/14/02 2:47)
Reported: 4/3/2006 11:51:27 AM 11:51
Posted: 5/15/2006
Location: Paintsville, KY
Shape: Disk
Duration:15 minutes

Train Collision

At exactly 2:47 a.m. on Jan. 14 02, while working a coal train enroute from Russell Kentucky to Shelbiana Kentucky, our trailing unit and first two cars were severely damaged as we struck an unknown floating or hovering object. I know it was 2:47 because my watch froze, and to this day shows that time. Along with my watch the entire electrical systems on both locomotives went haywire.

Approaching a bend near milepost cmg 42 in an area referred to as the wild kingdom, for the many different types of animals spotted there, my conductor and I saw lights coming from around the way. This ordinarily means another train is coming and will pass on the other track. The outlay of the area is this, the river, #1 track, #2 track and a straight up mountainside, carved out for the laying of these tracks. I killed our lights as not to blind the oncoming crew.

As we rounded the corner our onboard computer began to flash in and out, speed recorder went nuts, and both locomotives died. Alarm bells began to ring and thats when we saw the objects. Apparently scanning the river for something, the objects, (at least 3) had several "search" lights trained there, the first object hovered about 10 to 12 feet above the track.

Metallic silver in color with multiple colored lights near the bottom and in the middle, no windows or openings of any kind that we could see. Approximately 18 to 20 feet in length and probably ten feet high.

With both engines dead as we rounded the corner we made little noise and the first object did not respond in time, I estimate that we hit the object at 30 mph with 16,000 trailing tons behind us. It clipped the top of our lead unit then skipped back slicing a chunk out of our trailing unit and first two coal cars. The other objects vanished into thin air.

Our emergency brakes had initiated due to the loss of power and we stopped approximately a mile and a half to two miles after impact. Our power restored after we were stopped and we notified our dispatcher, located in Jacksonville Fla. of what had happened.

We were told to inspect the cars to see if they'd hold the rail and try to limp into milepost cmg 60 which used to be the Paintsville yard which is no longer in full operation. We checked everything out and the cab of the rear locomotive was demolished and smoking, the second two cars looked as if they had been hit with a giant hammer but looked like they'd hold the rail.

We pulled into Paintsville yard at approximately 5:15 am. The huge overhead lights lining the yard were noticeably dark and the only lights came from what we assumed were railroad officials vehicles parked near the end of the track. We pulled to a stop and began unloading our grips off the wounded train.

We could hear what sounded like an army of workers immediately tending to our train. Vehicle doors slamming, guys running by in weird outfits and lights glaring from all directions, the one thing missing was railroad officials.

A guy named Ferguson shook my hand and asked me to follow him into the old yard office. We did, once inside they, and by they I mean I have no idea who these people were, began to ask us hundreds of questions, they then told us for our own protection we'd be medically tested before we could leave.

I asked repeatedly to talk to my road foreman or trainmaster and not only were these requests denied but they confiscated my conductors cellular phone.

Hours later we were led outside the old yard office and the strange things continued to happen, the 2 locomotives and two cars were removed from the rest of the train we had brought in and my only guess was parked 4 tracks over under a huge tent like structure buzzing with activity. We were lead off property and told due to national security our silence on this matter would be appreciated.

We were then put in a Railroad vehicle and taken to Martin Kentucky were we went throgh questioning again with railroad officials and were then drug tested.

After all of this we were sent on to Shelbiana, where we took rest for 8 hours and worked another train back to Russell. Working back we passed by Paintsville, no sign of the engines, cars, tent, people, nothing.


((COMMENT/ADDENDUM FROM VISITOR TO NUFORC SITE, MAY 16, 2006))

For what it's worth, as a railfan I can say the terminology/slang the witness is using is accurate and how he describes the train's reaction seems likely. Since he says his dispatcher is in Jacksonville, FL, I can tell it happened on CSX. You might want to ask him about that and if he remembers the unit numbers or model. Locomotives last between 15-20 years unless they are totally demolished in a wreck. That means the units involved are most likely still in service and can, perhaps, be examined.

Another FWIW would be the Portland, OR, railcams that operate 24/7 with some sky in the views. I doubt that they archive their feed but you never know.

((END ADDENDUM))



TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: cuespookymusic; kentucky; train; ufo
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To: MichaelP

Amazing story...without single shred of evidence to support it.

Note what the US agents asked of him:
"We were lead off property and told due to national security our silence on this matter would be appreciated."

So he blabs right away.

Maybe there is a good reason national security is involved.
What if UFO really are visitors from space? They act in a most unfriendly way, with abductions, painfull experiments, deliberate flyovers of military bases....

A) I don't believe we are being visited, and
B) If I'm wrong, they're definately are NOT friendly.


41 posted on 09/23/2006 4:19:46 AM PDT by Cyclops08
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To: Cyclops08
B) If I'm wrong, they're definately are NOT friendly.

I don't know. They had this book called "To Serve Mankind."

42 posted on 09/23/2006 4:23:43 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Cyclops08

I've not considered them friendly for decades . . . regardless of Wernher von Braun's perspective on that issue.


43 posted on 09/23/2006 4:35:18 AM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: Cyclops08

It seems increasingly obvious given the increasing amounts of increasingly better quality data on the topic . . . that many folks are just uninformed.

Believing the MSM pablum and the routine disinformation junk is not likely to be a route to enlightenment.


44 posted on 09/23/2006 4:37:01 AM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: KarlInOhio
LOL! That picture always freaks me out.

The pic on right is pretty weird, too.

45 posted on 09/23/2006 4:40:02 AM PDT by Recovering Hermit (AIDS and islam...two preventable diseases.)
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To: Recovering Hermit
What strikes me as funny is here you have folks from trillions of miles away flying around our planet in spacecraft that have flashing lights. With technology that advanced why do they need flashing lights?

They're either stuck on disco or whatever.......

46 posted on 09/23/2006 4:49:53 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Vote for me as your state representative, I need a high paying job with no accountability.....)
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To: Hot Tabasco
With technology that advanced why do they need flashing lights?

It's intergalactic law that all UFOs be equipped with flashing lights.

And they better all be working, too.

47 posted on 09/23/2006 4:56:02 AM PDT by Recovering Hermit (AIDS and islam...two preventable diseases.)
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To: MichaelP
Paging Mr. Bell!

Paging Mr. Bell!

Mr. Art Bell.....white courtesy telephone please.

48 posted on 09/23/2006 5:38:13 AM PDT by albee (The best thing you can do for the poor is.....not be one of them. - Eric Hoffer)
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To: MichaelP

“Metallic silver in color with multiple colored lights near the bottom and in the middle, no windows or openings of any kind that we could see. Approximately 18 to 20 feet in length and probably ten feet high.”

Wonder how he could see all that detail at 2:47AM? Moonshine?


49 posted on 09/23/2006 5:48:08 AM PDT by Rock N Jones
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To: MichaelP

"A guy named Ferguson shook my hand and asked me to follow him into the old yard office."

Ferguson. For whatever reason, when bad writers and liars try to dream up a name, it's often Ferguson. Also, the story overdoes the train jargon.


50 posted on 09/23/2006 6:00:01 AM PDT by Ruddles
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To: Jaxter

Looks like a cup from Madonna's bra.


51 posted on 09/23/2006 11:16:09 AM PDT by My2Cents (A pirate's life for me.)
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To: Quix

Thank you for the ping Quix


52 posted on 09/23/2006 12:07:49 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: Quix

That picture shows what teenagers call a "donut." It's caused when you take your daddy's F-150 out and turn the wheels as far as you can and floor the gas pedal. The rear wheels spin out to form two large concentric outer rings and the front wheels form two smaller inner rings in the dirt, though sometimes one of the front tire rings overlapps one of the rear.

53 posted on 09/23/2006 12:35:49 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: bmwcyle
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Here's CSX #3 again on July 3rd of '06, four years after the initial collision, now with a hovering white saucer off to the fireman's side of the cab.

They're Back!!

Note brown UFO stains still mark the engineers side of the cab from the 2002 collision.

54 posted on 09/23/2006 12:56:31 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

IF the story is an eyewitness account it would be that of our mad scientists testing yet another expensive toy and having it get out of control.


55 posted on 09/23/2006 1:03:17 PM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a creditcard?)
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To: maggief

Yep, there is the evidence on the right side of the screen.
Had to be a UFO encounter because that just doesn't look human. Gotta be from Uranus.


56 posted on 09/23/2006 1:24:41 PM PDT by buck61
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To: FreedomCalls

And you were there.

Took measurements.

Are 100% certain nothing heavy pressed 5" into the earth.

You could be right.

I wasn't there either.

However, having met Linda Moulton Howe and knowing her personality and tenacity for not publishing something she hasn't verified . . .

I'd say that the alternate explanation offered is full of teenage . . . farts.


57 posted on 09/23/2006 3:44:49 PM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: potlatch

Have a blessed rest of the weekend!


58 posted on 09/23/2006 3:45:20 PM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: Hot Tabasco
With technology that advanced why do they need flashing lights?

Not stating a belief or disbelief in ET's, but there is the possibility that whatever motive force "they" use simply creates illumination as a side effect.

It could be no more than the engine flare you see when a military jet takes off at night.

Who knows?
59 posted on 09/23/2006 4:04:43 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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To: albee

It's been an abiding fascination with me . . .

That logically . . .

in all probability . . .

by the time the naysayers realize they've been ranting on the wrong side . . . ranting or speaking up will be or shortly thereafter be . . . severely limited, or perhaps moot in at least a list of ways.


60 posted on 09/23/2006 5:15:18 PM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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